The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-31
Hot Weather Happenings.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, July 30-The month just passed
has been of extraordinary heat, and has had
more than the usual allowance of fierce winds
and thunder-storms-a combination calculated at
oncesto drive many people to the seashore, and
to produce some comical complications among
them after they get there. One day, at one Of
our big beaches, young lady was in bathing,
when she noticed black cloud rising that
seemed to promise wind and rain. She made a
dash for the bathing house, got inside, and was
preparing to array herself. having taken off her
wet bathing clothes preliminary, when
bang came the wind and knocked the frail bath
house clean The girl gave a shrek, and
hastily gathering such of her clothes about her as
she could collect ran through the rain for her
rooms. a very moist and mortified being, if any
body had had time in the binding squat that
followed to notice her. The same day and at
the same place, one woman got the idea that all
the buildings were going to blow over, so she
threw herself fat the sand with the rain
peltlng full on her unprotected head till the
was over There are graver aspects of
the situation than these. There has never been
a month, probably, when travel more I'M
comfortable and dangerous, the
crowded, tempers more fragile, profanity more
common .,..- A Censy island island train oil. on
rush hours gives observer poor opinion of
humanity if it all inclined to pessimism. In the
history of the country there have been few more
sickly and fatal months Babies have died by
the thousands everywhere and older people
much more rapidly than in reasonable weather
Mothers have been turned back from the sick
children's floating hospital excursions with their
babies in their arms because the little sufferers
were so FAR gone that they would die before the
return. There has been a constant procession of
little white hearses to the cemeteries, and be-
reavement rests on countless s1ualid tenements
throughout the city. OF course with
the hot weather tempting people to the
salt water and buffeting them unexpect-
eddy when there, drowning accidents have
multiplied women and children furnishing more
than their quota of the sufferers. To offset these
cases there have been two conspicuous instances
of woman's heroism, as when Miss Fanny
Parker. the daughter OF CORTLAND Parker. of
Newark swan out to save drowning woman
last week, in tight walking gown shs was, and
when Mary TIce put off the Communipaw shore
IN a heavy blow, picking up three men and three
women from capsized saiboat, and bringing
them safe back her heavy dory to land.
Harvard professors seem to have a matrimonial
eye on Wellesley. First Professor Whitney, of
the biological chair, carried off Miss Mum, who
was a most efficient professor of biology at
Wellesley, and was the first woman ever ad-
mittee by Huxley to the privilege of his
science school on the Italian coast. and
now President Alice Freeman is snapped
up by another Harvard man. If the trustees of
Wellesley have any appreciation of the start the
college has taken and the new standing Is has
assumed under Miss Freeman's regime, theyecan
do no less than appoint another woman in her
stead.
bachelors idea of a comfortable house.
when the bachelor has plenty of money is Illus
trated by the mansion which Justice Gray is
building in Washington. The entire second
foor-and it is a house of great size-wll be en-
tirely devoted to the owners wants, big bedroom
big library and bathroom. Meek and mild mar
ried men seldom get such commodious quarters
Mrs. Cleveand's fondness for pond lilies has
greatly increased the number sold upon the
street this summer. Yet pond lilies have been
no more beautiful this year than last.
l.. p. HEAToN.